The Prayer Book Of Charles The Bold: A Study Of A Flemish Masterpiece From The Burgundian Cour

Schryver de, Antoine and Jessica Berenbeim

ISBN 10: 0892369434 / ISBN 13: 9780892369430

Editore: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 2008

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burgundy cloth boards w/ white spine printing. 310 pgs w/ primarily bw illustrations, select color. glossy burgundy dustjacket w/ color illustrations, orange printing. "In January of 1469 the accounts of Duke Charles the Bold of Burgundy record a payment to the scribe Nicolas Spierinc "for having written . some prayers for my lord." Seven months later the same accounts record a payment to the illuminator Lievin van Lathem for twenty-five miniatures plus borders and decorated initials in the same manuscript. In this thorough study, the late professor Antoine de Schryver presents a carefully reasoned argument that the documents refer to the exquisite prayer book of Charles the Bold now in the J. Paul Getty Museum. De Schryver's in-depth research opens a window onto the careers of the beloved van Lathem, who served three rulers of the Burgundian Netherlands over forty years, and of Nicolas Spierinc, the most inventive and brilliant scribe of Charles's court. This volume reproduces all of the book's miniatures and some of its elegant calligraphic pages."--Jacket. Good+/VG- (indentation, tear & creasing to lower, back spine edge. crinkling & creasing to spine ends. rubbing to corners. dustjacket has white, handwritten label to front edge, no other markings; tear & creasing to lower, back spine edge; scuffs & scratches; rubbing, creasing to spine ends).

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• Titolo: The Prayer Book Of Charles The Bold: A Study Of A Flemish Masterpiece From The Burgundian Cour
• Editore: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0892369434
• ISBN 13: 9780892369430
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • General Art - European
  • European Art

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Riassunto

In January 1469, the accounts of Duke Charles the Bold of Burgundy record a payment to the scribe Nicolas Spierinc for having written “some prayers for my lord.” Seven months later, the same accounts note a payment to the illuminator Lievin van Lathem for twenty-five miniatures plus borders and decorated initials in the same manuscript. In this seminal study, the late Antoine de Schryver argues that the documents refer to the prayer book of Charles the Bold now in the J. Paul Getty Museum (Ms. 37)—one of Charles’s most splendid commissions from the greatest era of Netherlandish Burgundian book painting.

De Schryver’s in-depth research opens a window onto the careers of Van Lathem family members, who served three rulers of the Burgundian Netherlands over forty years, and Nicolas Spierinc, the most inventive and brilliant scribe of Charles’s court. This volume reproduces all of the book’s miniatures and some of its elegant calligraphic pages.

Informazioni sugli autori

Antoine de Schryver was professor of art history, University of Ghent, The Netherlands. Thomas Kren is curator of manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum and the author of French Illuminated Manuscripts in the J. Paul Getty Museum and coauthor and editor of Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe. 

Antoine de Schryver was Professor of Art History, University of Ghent, the Netherlands until his retirement in 1989.
Thomas Kren is Curator of Manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum and the author of French Illuminated Manuscripts in the J. Paul Getty Museum and coauthor and editor of Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe.